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From The Archives

Each Friday, NCLR will post content from past issues. All past issues are currently available for purchase. Or check your library’s digital collections to read the full piece.

Cinderella in the Swamp

Friday from the Archives: “The Patchwork Princess of the Great Dismal Swamp” a short story written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Molly Windsor in NCLR 2006

Remembering George Moses Horton

Friday from the Archives: “The Verses from our Pen to him Belong” National Identity in the Political Homages of George Moses Horton” an essay by Justin Williams in NCLR 28 (2019)

Stephanie Powell Watts on Generational Change

Friday from the Archives: “Leaving Home to Return Home: Writing North Carolina Homeplace from ​the Particular to the Universal, an Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts” by DeLisa D. Hawkes and Maia L. Butler in NCLR 28 (2019)

“A Love to Die For”

Through this tale, we learn of the building passion between two friends who have just met. “And it was there, in the darkness before the rising of any moon, that Lamp looked deep into the eyes of the young man he had so carefully nurtured, whose love he had caused to grow the way a gardener grows fruit, and told him that he had a secret to reveal.”